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I just use Word and I wait until the house is empty and I read my stories aloud and that usually helps me fine tune rhyhms and highlights repeated words and phrase. The dog gives me funny looks, though.
Quote from: delboy on November 18, 2011, 04:23:42 AMI just use Word and I wait until the house is empty and I read my stories aloud and that usually helps me fine tune rhyhms and highlights repeated words and phrase. The dog gives me funny looks, though......sorry to disappoint and to sound stuffy--- reading aloud tells you if the text makes basic sense, or not. that's about all it does. --- it will not tell you iff the text is well written ..... why?? :- we dont write the way we speak. our speech patterns are lazy as can be, and choka-bloc full of lacsidaisycalities. [even when writing dialogue, one has to be aware of this]...... read this out-aloud: jonny said to me that the bucket is just about half empty and even i couldnt know that without looking for myself....did that sound okay?? - of course it does . how many mistakes do you hear??- none ........--- is it well written??? -- no, it is not ....
*quietly delurks*Wow. I had no idea about "that," "just," and "even." I sure hope you folks don't mind that I've stuck around post-contest... I'm learning a great deal from all y'all.ctrl-alt-lurk